When does local SEO targeting become doorway page spam?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 1st, 2008 Published in: Branding, Copywriting for SEO, Local Search, Marketing, SEO Agencies, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamI’ve been keeping an eye on several SEO related discussions on small business forums lately, and to be perfectly honest some of the “advice” being dished out by self proclaimed experts is somewhat disturbing.
I’ve chipped in my 2c from time to time on the recent discussions, but having read back even a week or two […]
BigMouthMedia - all talk or deserved success?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 6th, 2008 Published in: Branding, Marketing, SEO Agencies, Search Engine OptimisationI’ll kick off things with disclosing that I don’t have a very high opinion of BigMouthMedia. I worked there Jan 2005 - Jan 2006 and left fairly disenchanted with the company having had more than one disagreement with the powers that be about various things and some blog posts which ultimately led to them threatening legal […]
London Olympics 2012 logo - money well spent!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 6th, 2007 Published in: BrandingHow funny is this? 1 year to develop and £400,000 spent - yes, £400,000! And the damn thing is ugly as hell, being slated across the media and now is reported to be causing epiletic fits!
And the winner of the “Branding Screw Up of 2007 Award” is….
The London Olympic 2012 logo is also finding itself […]
Managing emerging brands and dealing with the PR fallout
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 23rd, 2007 Published in: Branding, Marketing, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media MarketingIt seems that 2007 brings us a “SEOs are teh devil” mantra from a multitude of newly crowned golden children of the web and to be perfectly honest it’s starting to annoy me.
No doubt the likes of Slashdot have already dealt with and got over the impact the SEO industry may or may not have on […]
Without content there is NO customer experience
Posted by: longboarder77 Date posted: February 6th, 2007 Published in: Branding, Copywriting for SEO, Marketing, Search Engine OptimisationI know that it seems incredibly simplistic, but a site without content has almost no value to man, beast or search engine. Of late I’ve been approached by a number of SME clients asking for expert advice in how they can grow the revenues in theire online advertising affiliate sites.
Link Baiting vs Brand Protection
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 23rd, 2007 Published in: Branding, Link Baiting, Public Relations, SEO AgenciesAny publicity is good publicity…
I’ve never believed this old adage - I think it’s an arrogant dismissal by incompetent marketers who can’t manage their public relations properly. Until recently it has never really been a big concern in the online world, but with an explosion of online communities over the past few years and the […]
Google plus selling Blogger in related SERPs
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 22nd, 2006 Published in: Blogging, Branding, Google, Google Adsense, Marketing, SpeculationSome snippets popping up in “blog” related search queries on Google now plus selling Blogger. Example: